ly our knees. If we are content with our
present Christian life, if we do not desire with a desperate hunger
to get on to the Highway, we shall never get to our knees and thus
never climb the hill. But if we are dissatisfied, if we are hungry,
then we will find ourselves ascending. Don't hurry. Let God make you
really hungry for the Highway; let Him really drive you to your knees
in longing prayer. Mere sightseers won't get very far. "Ye shall find
Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart."

A Low Door.

At the top of the hill, guarding the way to the Highway, stands so
gaunt and grim ... the Cross. There it stands, the Divider of time
and the Divider of men. At the foot of the Cross is a low door, so
low that to get through it one has to stoop and crawl through. It is
the only entrance to the Highway. We must go through it if we would
go any further on our way. This door is called the Door of the Broken
Ones. Only the broken can enter the Highway. To be broken means to be
"not I, but Christ." There is in every one of us a proud,
stiff-necked "I." The stiff neck began in the Garden of Eden when
Adam and Eve, who had always bowed their heads in surrender to God's
will, stiffened their necks, struck out for independence and tried to
be "as gods." All the way through the Bible, God charges His people
with the same stiff neck; and it manifests itself in us, too. We are
hard and unyielding. We are sensitive and easily hurt. We get
irritable, envious and critical. We are resentful and unforgiving. We
are self-indulgent--and how often that can lead to impurity! Every
one of these things, and many more, spring from this proud self
within. If it were not there and Christ were in its place, we would
not have these reactions. Before we can enter the Highway, God must
bend and break that stiff-necked self, so that Christ reigns in its
stead. To be broken means to have no rights before God and man. It
does not mean merely surrendering my rights to Him but rather
recognising that I haven't any, except to deserve hell. It means just
being nothing and having nothing that I call my own, neither time,
money, possessions nor position.

In order to break our wills to His, God brings us to the foot of the
Cross and there shows us what real brokenness is. We see those
wounded Hands and Feet, that Face of Love crowned with thorns and we
see the complete brokenness of the One who said, "Not my will, but
Thine be done," as He dr